Later, when I looked closely, it seemed that the lip of the base (where the stone fell) had been changed, and it was obvious that it was "shaved to fit the foot" according to the shape of the bottom of the stone.

Look at the stone again, it is not the stone of Guangdong Yingde, it should be the stone of Guangxi, which is a new stone species developed in recent years, but the level of old is more superb.

Generally speaking, the old and new stones, often the stone tenon will have a place to be processed, in order to close the tenon seamlessly, because there are very few new stone tenon and the old seat seamless, like this stone is indeed extremely rare, but also let people relax their vigilance.

The old seat is a new stone, and more of it is a stone that has been processed and the old seat is "intimate". In the early years, I saw a Lingbi stone in a collector's home, the base is also open to the old, the Lingbi stone on it has obvious processing marks, including the bottom is also cut, carefully distinguish the pulp is old, according to which it is speculated that the stone is completely based on the old seat "cut enough to fit" the new stone.

Generally speaking, the wooden seat is a stone, the tenon is different, can not be mixed, only the stone basin (including some stone Sumeru seat) can be mixed, so the market is more common to the old basin (seat) with (old) new stone, have to be checked.

Ancient stone forgery, celebrity carving is a common routine, but also the "hardest hit area".

The so-called celebrities, probably from the Ming and Qing dynasties to the Republic of China, calligraphers and painters, collectors and households, some of them are very famous, such as Jin Nong, Wu Changshuo, Wu Hufan, etc., and some of them are not big, and they need to check the dictionary to know.

These celebrity carvings, some on the base, some on the stone.

Judging from the content, if the handwriting does not match the number of the parties, the tone and sentence do not match the identity of the parties, and even there are typos (especially traditional characters, some ancient times also have simplified characters, such as a few words in several cases, and a few words of quantitative words, the former does not use traditional Chinese, and the latter must use traditional Chinese), including the year of payment does not match the experience of the parties, it must be false;

Generally, in the past, the carved model was often deep, the knife was sharp, and the pulp in the depression was not obvious, and the new engraving was often not enough, hesitant and procrastinating, and there was also pulp in the mouth.

More complicated is the so-called "old punch", that is to say, the stone and the seat are old, but the parties carved the money is not real, is the old imitation, this is the most common situation in the auction market, some are admired by later generations, and more I am afraid that it is still sold for its treachery.

Although it is also valuable, it is often problematic if it is to be determined according to the name of the inscription of the person concerned - it cannot be called a cultural relic, because the so-called ancient celebrity collection of stones that are really circulated in an orderly manner and have a letter is only a handful, and the vast majority of the famous ones cannot be identified or falsified.

For example, in April 2008, Sotheby's Hong Kong "Taoism and Nature: An Important Stone Collection of Jiansong Pavilion" special auction, with a transaction price of 3.8475 million yuan to break the auction record of ancient stones, "Yuan, Yushanpu, Heilingbi Stone", because the back of the stone has the Yuan Dynasty Gu Aying's carved "Qunfeng Lie Xiuyin Ke Harmonic". A Yingming" (there is also a Qing Dynasty painter Wang Shimin carved paragraph), so the dynasty is Yuan. Gu Aying is also known as Gu Dehui, the word Zhongying, alias Jinsu Daoren.

He was born in a wealthy room in the south of the Yangtze River, disdainful of Shijin, loves poetry, likes to make friends, builds a garden "small peach source", and later changed its name to "Yushan Thatched Cottage", several times invited friends to drink and write poems and inscriptions, known as Yushan Yaji in history, which can be called a grand event.

Gu Aying has a habit of good stones, but her calligraphy is extremely rare.

Coincidentally, in December last year, the Shanghai Museum held a special exhibition of Wu Hufan's calligraphy and painting collection, which exhibited Wu Hufan's collection or handled the ancient calligraphy and painting masterpieces, one of which was a Yuan Dynasty Qian Xuan "Floating Jade Mountain Residence Map" hand scroll, there are many famous inscriptions behind the painting core, which happens to have Gu Aying's inscription poem, if you carefully compare, the handwriting of "Yushan Pu" is still different from it.

For another example, Hangzhou Xiling Seal Society has a modern calligraphy and painting master Wu Changshuo engraved the collection of Lingbi stone "water painting spirit stone", regarded as the treasure of the town, once published in the cover of the book "Viewing Strange Stones, Appreciating Famous Paintings" (edited by Tong Yanfang, published by Xiling Seal Society in January 2005), originally for the late Ming Dynasty Rugao risked to open up the territory.

Mao Xiang (1611-1693), the word Bijiang, the number Chaomin, the number one Pu'an, also known as the Pu Chao, the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty writers, and Tongcheng Fang Yizhi, Yixing Chen Zhenhui and Shangqiu Hou Chaozong and called the "four sons of the late Ming Dynasty".

Wu in 1897 (Ding Younian, Guangxu twenty-three years) obtained, engraved on it: "mountain essence, thousand years of knots, before the return of the people after the bitter iron" (Wu Changshuo bitter iron), and there are "nest people long things" and other carved items, this is really a party of orderly ancient stones.

After Master Yu said this, Jiulong was silent, to judge the ancient stone, this requires not only the level of appreciation, but also the understanding of history and characters, and this is exactly what he lacks.

In this way, Jiulong and Mr. Lai walked and watched, and unknowingly, ushered in the 7th Shanghai Mineral and Fossil Exhibition.

The exhibition lasted for three days, from April 15th to 18th, and the venue was selected in Zhongfu Antique City, where President Xu was the president.

The Shanghai Mineral and Fossil Exhibition is the only professional mineral and fossil exhibition in China, which has been held for six consecutive sessions.

When Kowloon arrived at the exhibition center, he saw a familiar figure - Lao Zou, the owner of the national treasure "Suoyun", when he was competing with Kowloon on the same stage, Lao Zou once said that he played with mineral crystals, but he didn't expect to meet here again.

What surprised Jiulong even more was that Lao Zou turned out to be the organizer of this mining crystal, which shows that he is also a celebrity in the mining crystal world.

Lao Zou also saw Jiulong at a glance, came over to greet him warmly, and took Jiulong to visit the mine.

The first thing you see is rhodochrosite (rhodochrosite) from Argentina.

Rhodochroblastite crystals belong to the trigonal crystal system, and the complete rhombohedral crystal form is rare, usually granular, massive, kidney-like and other aggregates, often pale rose-red, and the oxidized surface is brownish-black, and the glass luster.

This side of the Argentine rhodochroidite is block-shaped, rose red, and at a cursory glance, it is thought to be a piece of flesh stone, with skin, fat and thin, very realistic.

The second side is beryl.

Beryl belongs to the hexagonal crystal system, the crystals are hexagonal, the cylinder surface has longitudinal lines, the crystals can be very small, but they can also be several meters long, the hardness is 7.5-8, and the specific gravity is 2.63-2.80.

Pure beryl is colorless and can even be transparent, but mostly green, but there are also light blue, yellow, white, and rose colors with a vitreous luster.

This square crystal is a hexagonal cylindrical crystal cluster, which is transparent and cute.

The third party saw calcite from Wenshan, Yunnan.

The crystal shapes of calcite are varied, and their aggregates can be clusters of crystals, granular, lumpy, fibrous, stalactite, earthy, etc.

Knocking calcite can get a lot of square pieces, hence the name solution.

The color of calcite varies according to the impurities it contains, such as light yellow, light red, brownish black, etc., when it contains iron and manganese, but it is generally white or colorless.

The calcite of Yunnan is like a blooming white rose, attracting many people to watch.